Removing FFdev edition results in BM no longer prompting to close and reopen FF.

Astonishingly, now also the chromium issue seems to be gone. I'm not signed into chromium and am 100% positive on that. I also double checked in chromium chrome://settings/ it has a sign in button so > not signed in.

Syncing is off. Well neither BM or chromium changed 79 bookmarks. I didn't touch chromium so judging from that it would be BM. But I didn't do anything there. Then only main current main browser could be the source of the changes (firefox) but I did not change 79 bookmarks.

As I wrote above the chromium issue has not re-appeared after FFdev was uninstalled. Will observe further. Do you think I can activate syncing again? Or should I leave that off for now?

Hm, switched it on and now I'm back to
The proposed Export operation will cause 80 items to be added to, 363 items to be updated in, and 79 items to be deleted from Chromium.

The total, 522 changes, exceeds your Safe Sync Limit of 25 for Chromium!  Are you sure you want to do this export?

when syncing to all. Export anyhow. Try cmd + u again, no warning. So looking good. Let's see how this behaves for a while.


BM has just displayed the following warning while having turned on automatic sync much earlier today. When opening BM after this error or clicking "view" in the error msg automatic sync is turned off again:

An Export operation was aborted because it would have caused 82 items to be added to, 388 items to be updated in, and 81 items to be deleted from Chromium.

The total, 551 changes, exceeds your Safe Sync Limit of 25 for Chromium.

Do you *really* want to *DELETE* 81 items in Chromium?  If not, click "Cancel".

Suggestion to Fix this Error:
Click 'Open' to open the document.  Then retry manually by clicking in the menu: File > Export to all.  You'll get more info.

✔  To prevent recurrence, syncing has been switched off.  To resume syncing, after the issue is resolved, click the 'Syncing' button in the toolbar.

When this error occurred:
2015-02-05 21:19:12

Regarding the latest FIREFOX trouble, if you mean your open tabs in a browser window, I don't think BookMacster could affect those.

Regarding your desire to uninstall Firefox Developer Edition, go ahead and do it.  I can reproduce the issue with BookMacster getting mixed up between running Firefox versions myself.  (Actually, we discovered it here and, I just found, opened an issue a few weeks ago, but haven't worked on it.)  I think the issues arise from multiple Firefox profiles and app instances, and maybe you could also work around the problem by using the developer edition and profile only.

Regarding CHROMIUM, the first thing I want to say is to please check again that you're not signed in to Chromium.  Let's review the situation.  You've got syncing off in BookMacster, and you export to Chromium, the second time with, as expected, 0 changes.  You can export a third time or a fourth time with no changes.  Clearly, BookMacster and Chromium have the same content.  Then you come back the next day, try it again, and 79 items want to be churned.  That means either 79 items changed in Chromium,  or in BookMacster.  Which is it?  Maybe you could please repeat that two-day test and see if it is reproducible.  Also, you can see which 79 items are being churned in BookMacster's Reports > Sync Logs.  You may see that BookMacster is simply replacing bookmarks with other bookmarks that have the same name, same URL and same location, which probably means that the internal unique identifiers have changed.

Regarding the user experience on the red defunct Firefox profile, there is a tooltip that will show after a few seconds of hovering that suggests clicking it.  You apparently figured it out before the tooltip appeared.  I'm counting that as a success!  I'd rather not pollute the user interface with any more words than we already have.

Regarding the unnecessary launching of Firefox, I've just reproduced that.  I'll try to work on it and get back here tomorrow.

Eeek, I never realized that Profile Manager was so big.  You can get a similar Profile Manager window in Firefox with a Terminal command that I'd have to look up, but it's a little wonkier.

In your BookMacster document, how many Clients do you have listed and what are they?  Having two Firefox clients has probably not been tested very much, and I need to try that.

Also, try that Export to only > Chromium a couple more times, to make sure that nothing has changed in the last hour.  It should show 0 changes both times, unless you've changed something.

I'll take the last issue first.

SYNCING

Syncing will just compound other issues.  Leave syncing in BookMacster off until we resolve the other two.

CHROMIUM EXPORTS NOT STICKING

Please try to export to Chromium with immediate, consecutive exports like this:

• Click in the menu: File > Export to only > Chromium.
• If asked about the Safe Limit, Export Anyhow.
• After the export completes, immediately File > Export to only > Chromium again.

This time, there should be no Safe Limit warning, and the Status field at the bottom of the window, should indicate 0 changes (+0 Δ0 ↖0 ↕0 -0).  Does that work?

FIREFOX LAUNCHING

You have two Firefox profiles, maybe more.  One of them in your screenshot, the one that begins: default-14190XXX, is an new profile which Firefox creates after Firefox has been reset.  I need to retest how this should work, but in the meantime, please straighten out those Firefox profiles.  I like to use Jonathan Griffin's Profile Manager app which you can download from here.  See how many Firefox profiles you have, remove unwanted profiles if any and, I suggest, rename them to remove the weird numbers.  (That 14190XX… is the time from the Unix epoch that the profile was created.)

Once the Firefox extension is installed, which BookMacster prompts you to do pretty aggressively, BookMacster can import and export to Firefox while it is running.  If you find otherwise, send a few steps for me to try and reproduce.

Hello, Fatal.

I just tested BookMacster with that Chromium 40 and it works fine for me.  You didn't say how much time you waited between exports.  After the first export, I exported again, immediately, and, in the Status field at the bottom of the window, BookMacster reported 0 changes (+0 Δ0 ↖0 ↕0 -0), as expected, and, of course, no Safe Limit warning appeared.

Are you signed in to Chromium, as explained here?  The article is written for Chrome but Chromium works the same way.  If so, sign out (or switch off their Bookmarks checkbox) and retry.  Maybe Google is changing these 80 bookmarks back for some reason.

How does it work with two consecutive, immediate exports?

In your BookMacster document, the Reports > Sync Log tab will show which 80 bookmark are being re-synced.  That may or may not tell you anything.

Ultimately, there may be something in those 80 bookmarks that we need to have a look at.  For us to have a look, in BookMacster, click in the menu: Help > Trouble Zipper and when it asks to include your files and bookmarks, click Include.